So excited and honored to be awarded the Australia Museum Eureka Prize for Science Journalism in Sydney last week. The prize was for my 2022 piece for Griffith Review on the quest for a million year old ice core – Buried Treasure: A Journey Into Deep Time. It’s a story about both the smallness of humanity in the scheme of things, and also our epic impact on the planet – for worse and, potentially for better if we get our act together. One of the things I loved about exploring this story was the entanglement of so many threads – of exploration, science, politics and policy and how they are shaped by these intimate foibles of human ambition and endeavour.  It’s about the amazing feats humans are capable of, and what drives them. About the damage we can do collectively, and what drives that. It’s a story that’s both terrifying and hopeful. Which way that swings now is up to all of us. A huge thank you to the scientists who have been so generous, sharing their work and insights over so many years. And kudos to my two fellow nominees for their amazing work – the ABC’s Mikey Slezac, and Nature’s Nicky Phillips.